I hope you had a Merry Christmas. There, I said it. Merry Christmas.

The earth didn’t crack wide open, and the government didn’t persecute me. I highly doubt that any Muslims, Jews, Buddhists or animists took great offense. I could very well have said Happy Hannukah, Happy Kwanzaa or happy Earth spirit day, and perhaps only a few paranoid would have been offended.

So much for the Christian holiday. While on that subject, however, a quote comes to mind: “He who does not work, neither shall he eat.”

If you think this sounds like capitalism, think again. It comes from the Soviet Constitution of 1936. Yep, Joseph Stalin said it.

Capt. Miles Standish of the Jamestown Colony also said it. He wasn’t referring to the poor, though. He was speaking about the idle rich “gentlemen” who thought they were above physical labor. Times were tough in those days.

In 1994, Mother Teresa, at the National Prayer Breakfast in Washington, D.C., quoted Jesus as saying, “Whatever you neglected to do for the least of these, you neglected to do unto me.”

I don’t think Mother Teresa was one of those to occupy Wall Street, or Augusta. However, I’m quite certain that she would sympathize with the occupiers today.

Now we have to ask ourselves, will we walk with Mother Teresa or will we walk with Joe Stalin and Miles Standish?

Peter P. Sirois

Madison

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